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Now reading
Le Médicin Malgré Lui
Le MEDECIN MALGRE LUI
Oh I suppose I should
Wash the walls of my office,
Polish the rust from
My instruments and keep them
Definitely in order;
Build shelves in
The little laboratory ;
Empty out the old stains,
Clean the bottles
And refill them; buy
Another lens; put
My journals on edge instead of
Letting them lie flat
In heaps-then begin
Ten years back and
Gradually
Read them to date,
Cataloguing important
Articles for ready reference.
I suppose I should
Read the new books.
If to this I added
‚A bill at the tailor's
And the cleaner's
And grew a decent beard
And cultivated a look
Of importance-
Who can tell? I might be
A credit to my Lady Happiness
And never think anything
But a white thought!
William Carlos Williams
PLUMS
It is a waste of time to talk to my cousin about his plums,
Though I know-
standing on the path with the sun in my hair
I make a sufficiently pleasing picture.